Table 3.
Description of activated scenes within each network and their scene groupings.
| Default Mode Network | |
|---|---|
| Scene Grouping | Description of Scenes |
| Group 1: Sad/Emotional | Scene 1: Gru goes to the door, where Miss Hattie informs him, she's there for the girls |
| Scene 2: Minions cleaning up the girls’ paintings on the wall, girls standing in the boxes of shame | |
| Scene 4: Gru proclaiming, "I am the greatest criminal mind," before getting into his spaceship | |
| Scene 5: Miss Hattie at the door, Dr. Nefario clearing his throat behind Gru. Gru tells Miss Hattie he’ll get the girls ready and walks them to the car | |
| Group 2: Bonding | Scene 6: Gru reading a book, dismissing it as garbage, the girls asking him to keep reading. |
| Scene 7: Gru reading the book, the girls starting to yawn and fall asleep. | |
| Scene 8: Gru reading the book to the girls before bed | |
| Scene 9: Gru declines reading a book to the girls, but they insist | |
| Scene 10: The girls say they’ll only bother Gru if he doesn’t read them a bedtime story, Gru complies | |
| Scene 11: Girls asleep, Gru gets emotional about content, Gru says goodnight and wakes them up. | |
| Group 3: Action | Scene 3: Gru’s spaceship falling, blasting past a floating minion, as Gru detaches from the spaceship. |
| Ventral Attention Network | |
|---|---|
| Scene Grouping | Description of Scenes |
| Group 1: Sad/Emotional | Scene 3: Girls get into the car with Miss Hattie, pleading for Gru to keep them. |
| Scene 11: Gru sadly watches as the girls drive away. Dr. Nefario insists it's for Gru's own good. | |
| Scene 15: Minions clean up paintings. Girls in boxes of shame at the foster home. | |
| Group 2: Bonding | Scene 2: Gru reads a book, dismissing it as garbage. Girls ask him to continue. |
| Scene 4: Girls asleep, Gru gets emotional about content, Gru says goodnight and wakes them up. | |
| Scene 5: Gru declines reading a book to the girls, but they insist. | |
| Scene 6: Gru enters the room to find hyperactive girls, reminding them it's time to sleep. | |
| Scene 9: Gru enjoys a tea party with the girls before excusing himself as the doorbell rings. | |
| Scene 10: Gru reading the book, the girls starting to yawn and fall asleep. | |
| Group 3: Fear/Pain | Scene 7: Gru finds a doll in bed and gets scared, switching focus to his minions in the lab. |
| Scene 8: Vector gets zapped by Gru while attached to a spaceship. | |
| Scene 12: Vector inflates a parachute. Gru's spaceship falls past a minion. | |
| Group 4: Conflict | Scene 1: Minion hands Gru the recital ticket Gru proclaims "I am the greatest criminal mind.” |
| Scene 13: Miss Hattie inquires about returning the girls and hits Gru with a Spanish dictionary, as Dr. Nefario clears his throat. | |
| Scene 14: Dr. Nefario questions Gru about postponing the heist, suspecting it’s related to the girls’ recital, as Gru defends himself. | |
| Scene 16: Dr. Nefario warns Gru about the girls being a distraction and begins to threaten their involvement. | |
| Cingulo-Opercular Network | |
|---|---|
| Scene Grouping | Description of Scenes |
| Group 1: Sad/Emotional | Scene 3: Gru walks by while the minions clean up the paintings on the wall. |
| Scene 5: Gru watches as girls drive away. Dr. Nefario says it's for Gru's own good, Gru sad, minions crying in the window. | |
| Group 2: Bonding | Scene 2: Girls asleep, Gru gets emotional about content, Gru says goodnight and wakes them up. |
| Scene 4: Gru enjoys a tea party with the girls before excusing himself as the doorbell rings. | |
| Scene 7: Gru reading the book, the girls starting to yawn and fall asleep. | |
| Scene 9: Agnes explains the finger puppets in the book, Gru tries it. | |
| Group 3: Fear/Pain | Scene 6: Vector falling, inflates parachute and flies into electric pole, Gru's spaceship falling. |
| Scene 8: Miss Hattie hits Gru with a Spanish dictionary and says she didn't like what he says. | |
| Group 4: Conflict | Scene 1: Gru says he's the greatest criminal mind and doesn't go to dance recitals. |
| Amygdala | |
|---|---|
| Scene Grouping | Description of Scenes |
| Group 1: Conflict | Scene 3: Gru throws the recital ticket, and the minion catches it. |
| Group 2: Bonding | Scene 2: Edith instructs Gru how to use the book finger puppets. Gru responds sarcastically |
| Group 3: Fear/Pain | Scene 1: Vector inflates a parachute, flies into an electric pole and gets electrocuted. Gru’s spaceship falls past a minion |